Metropolitan Police investigating donations to Reform UK and former Tory leadership campaign

The force has launched inquiries into over £500,000 in donations to Reform UK and a £37,500 donation to Robert Jenrick's Conservative leadership campaign following Electoral Commission referrals.

• The Metropolitan Police confirmed investigations into donations made to a political party and a party leadership campaign, with two people interviewed under caution and no arrests made.
• The Reform UK case involves allegations that donations from Fiona Cottrell, mother of a convicted fraudster, were impermissible under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000.
• Nigel Farage said the benefits from the Cottrell family were not related to his political activity and denied any wrongdoing.
• Robert Jenrick said the allegations of an impermissible donation from the US company Innovyz are false and that he fully cooperated with the Electoral Commission.